Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

20-November-2013

Mozilla Platform: 2013-11-19

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

  • FF26.0b6 with QA, shipping today (Desktop) and tomorrow (Mobile)
  • FF26.0b7 Desktop-only will have new notification UI for CTP
  • Only one Beta next week 26.0b8 for Desktop and Mobile due to US Thanksgiving
  • See Rapid Release Calendar for updated release dates in new year
Next Merge: December 9, 2013 Next Release: December 10, 2013
Trains
Central: 28 Aurora: 27 Beta: 26 Release: 25
36 bugs (34 bugs last week) 40 bugs (42 bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 27 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) Unresolved Beta 26 Trackers (non-security)

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

1. bug 940403 Tree Closing Window, Fri 1930-2400. Tegras will be down, Panda talos tests down, due to power work at Mountain View.

2. hg.mozilla.org SSL certificate is changing Thursday — see post in dev.platform and dev.tree-management newsgroups to see if this affects you.

3. On git.m.o and github.com, the repos gecko-dev and gecko-projects supported and open for business. See details in Aki’s post

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

Team Stand-ups

(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)

Accessibility (dbolter)

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  • Accessibility how-tos for Gaia developers continue.

Add-on SDK (dtownsend)

No update

App Tools (dtownsend)

No update

Developer Tools (robcee)

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21 Bugs Fixed.

Firefox Desktop (gavin)

  • AUSTRALIS!
    • Blog posts:
    • Will not be riding the 28 train, target is Firefox 29
      • Holly branch is set up to ensure the backout works cleanly on merge day, some focused testing effort will be directed there by QA
    • Send constructive feedback to Firefox/firefox-dev

Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

bbondy giving update.

  • There’s a high chance we’ll be landing profile sharing, and switch to Desktop/Metro either at the end of this week, or early next week.
  • We were coding a lot of the bugs for pre-australis and post-australis, but the testing has been done on pre-australis. We need to retest now with post-australis.
  • Once it lands, be on the lookout for any type of profile related problems, and make sure you CC :bbondy or reach out to me on IRC.
  • Otherwise, double tab to zoom is r+ed and landing soon, and there are a lot of good APZC bugs fixed.
  • Iteration 19 is wrapping up this week.

Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)

  • Fixed through beta, uplifted in time for this week’s go to build: bug 935604 – Regression: Graphical corruption shown on screen during page load
  • WebRTC 3.43 has also landed for Android. There is an r+’d patch for a popular x86 device which needs to be landed/uplifted bug 937119 – Audio broken on Motorola RAZR i
  • Sneak peak at a very early WIP for offline functionality bug 935190 – Try to show cached pages when Fennec is offline
  • Quickshare v2 is in progress: http://cl.ly/image/3Q0c1d2z1d2m, http://cl.ly/image/0h0I0J27390i
  • More progress is being made on using Action Bar for text selection bug 768667
  • First set of GeckoView API improvements landed; Finkle is working on documetation
  • Incremental progress continues on other improvements such as: Locale selection bug 936756 and OpenShare bug 852608

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

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  • Status 1.3
    • DSDS is still at risk, it will need until sprint 6 to be landed.
    • Messaging: some components might be postponed to 1.4
  • Comms + RIL workweek is scheduled next week November 25-29

Firefox OS Devices (ttsai/mchen)

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  • Bluetooth
  • V1.3 – SD Card Format bug 841660. (Implementing)
  • Try to enable address sanitizer on b2g.
  • Media Playback:
    • To study the latency attribute in OpenSL ES for finding the best buffer sizes on each stream types.
    • To support the playback issue on flatfish. (output buffer’s starvation)
    • Bugs: bug 924015, bug 937434, bug 940177

Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)

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  • Landed koi/hd+ bugs (939047, 928856, 931054, 931093, 931125) and continuing to work on two new bugs that came in this week
  • Features Landed last week for 1.3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925192

  • Flatfish: Continuing to work on UI layout changes for video and music2 apps

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

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  • bug 926746 – HARDWARE_UNAVAILABLE is already thrown while GetUserMedia for audio
  • bug 924692 – Add support for selecting using touch / Phoebe
  • bug 933711 – When the Firefox phone goes to sleep, wait for long time, if you wake up the phone, it took too much time to enter the lock screen.
  • bug 879669 – Support Video Encoder module in MediaEncoder framewrok
  • WIFI direct – Study Miracast on Android
  • TPE Gfx team: CSS transform and layout study

Firefox OS Performance (mlee)

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Focused on closing out 1.2 blockers.

Firefox OS Radio/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

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  • Last week
    • RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
    • NFC, to add test cases.
    • EAP-SIM, to integrate Partner’s EAP-SIM solution.
    • Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
    • WPA-EAP, to import PKCS#12 CA by wifimanager, reviewing.
    • WIFI-Direct, to fix synchronization problem, reviewing.
    • Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
    • Network metering, to add metering function for FTP.
  • This week
    • RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
    • NFC, to add test cases.
    • EAP-SIM, to co-work with partner to fix EAP-SIM problem.
    • Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
    • WPA-EAP, to add interface for WPA-EAP, reviewing.
    • WIFI-Direct, to fix synchronization problem, reviewing.
    • Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
    • Network metering, to add metering function for system.

Firefox OS Systems – Platform (timdream)

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  • DSDS: Gaia patches on API changes have all landed, feature on going. Work week in Taipei next week.
  • NFC: NFCManager in review, shrink UI patch need update.
  • Tablet: Working on developer+ bugs, remove camp to be held tomorrow.
  • Keyboard: 1 bug left. Blocked on Gaia Unit test quirks in bug 910697.
  • EAP-SIM: Gaia patch ready but untested with Gecko API (not-landed-yet)
  • Format SD card: Gecko to be land this week. Gaia work to start this week.
  • CDMA: A few 1.3+ issues need to find some time to work on.
  • Window manager: Working on AppWindowManager (big patch!)
  • Settings: reviewing Kevin’s patch. No update on bluetooth refactor.
  • Hardware showcase: adding new tests. Need to figure out what Gecko need to fix and ask for help.
  • getUserMedia permission: Gaia patch ready, waiting for API to be ready.
  • Lockscreen: made some workaround and improvement on the DOM version, canvas version in review.

Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-11-19

GFX (milan)

  • Have the preliminary priorities for Q4, Q1, Q2 next year
  • Sorting out the scheduling
  • Big part of the plan is to finish the large changes around Moz2D and OMTC

Identity (jedp)

Firefox Accounts on FirefoxOS

JS (naveed)

    • Compiler (JIT)
      • bug 927516: Bump Ion script size limit for DOM workers
      • bug 894881: Make accessing typed array properties like byteLength much faster
    • Garbage Collection
      • Garbage collection team is in Mountain View working hard on landing GGC
        • Goal 1 – Static Analysis On
          • Currently on and Unhidden for this week. We will need to have this permanently on to avoid rooting regressions and security issues.
          • Individual developers are now responsibile for rooting hazards they introduce. You can find more information on how to handle these on the wiki SpiderMonkey:ExactStackRooting
        • Goal 2 – Exact Rooting On
          • Dromaeo DOM performance regression – dealt with
          • Deal with remaining hazards this week (23 left) – any help you can on offer this week on these will be greatly appreciated
          • Note 1: We are taking a 1-2% performance regression from exact rooting. We will make this up and more with GGC on.
          • Note 2: When Exact Rooting is turned on rooting hazards become security issues so Analysis needs to remain on as a tier1 test (backout if it fails).
        • Goal 3 – Generation Garbage Collector On
          • Browser crashes
          • Performance tuning
          • Note 1: GGC is working in the shell and is currently even with Nightly on AWFY performance.
    • Front End and Other
      • Work on Module continues

Media (mreavy)

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  • Working to update libvpx to 1.2.0, which will gets us VP9 support (see bug 763495)
  • Media playback team is having their work week this week in Auckland
  • Opera’s latest release supports gUM and WebRTC: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/opera-desktop-18-released
  • The WebRTC team and the Media Recording team are working to enable all the WebRTC APIs (gUM, PeerConnection, and Data Channels) for B2G v1.3. Audio-only calls on B2G work now with mozilla-central and 2 patches applied.
  • Special thanks to new contributor Adrian Cruceru <cruceru.adrian@yahoo.com> for diving into a number of webrtc crash reports and doing some great analysis, and providing patches for several!

Necko (dougt/jduell)

  • HTTP/2 work is proceeding well:
    • up to date with latest draft
    • doing DNS experiment to see if we can use SRV records to store info on whether server speaks HTTP/2
    • a lot of discussion about whether “http:” links (not https) should use “opportunistic encryption” (i.e. no certs) or not. We are leaning towards supporting it.
  • HTTP Cache re-write: complications writing crash-proof index: will miss Q4 but hopefully will land early Q1.
  • No longer doing speculative connections to private network addresses (broke some router admin pages): bug 853423

Performance (vladan)

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No update

Seceng (mmc)

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  • Bug 932116 – You can now copy text (like SHA1 fingerprints, for checking unexpected certificate errors) from the Certificate Viewer

WebAPI (overholt)

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  • Anne and Jonas at TPAC in Shenzen last week
  • Still working hard to get async IDB in workers for end of December (post-gecko 28)
  • marcosc almost ready to publish research and recommendations on “standalone” web apps
  • Thinker would still like feedback on https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/XHRBatch

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

MemShrink (njn)

  • The trees were shut again for several days due to OOM-related Win7 M-2 and M-bc test failures. Contributions to the post-mortem and suggestions on how to prevent such problems again are welcome!
  • Matt Woodrow fixed a bad gfx leak that was causing very high memory usage (reported under “heap-unclassified”) on Macs when a browser window was minimized. Nick Cameron added a memory reporter for this memory so it will be reported properly in the future. (Sadly enough, Nick wrote that reporter six weeks ago but it bounced due to it causing PGO bustage on Windows — if it had been present, the leak could have been fixed more quickly. Thankfully the PGO bustage has disappeared now.)

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

  • Past week’s OrangeFactor: 4.58 (Previous Week: 4.94).
  • See Memshrink update for tree closure post-mortem.
  • 9 intermittent failures fixed in the last week – List – Thanks!.

Stability (kairo/bsmedberg)

  • Overall numbers look good, except for trunk regressions on Android.
  • If you look at stability data on Socorro, note that the “EMPTY” dump signature is changing somewhat due to a better stackwalker with more detailed errors (among other things).

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

<Read only beyond this point>

Friends of the Tree

There were great changes by volunteers in Core and Toolkit during the past week. Thanks to all of these contributors for their passion and hard work! Here are some highlights:

Mailing List Threads

(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)

Good Reads

(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)

irc #planning Log From This Meeting

[1:59pm] lmandel: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-11-19
[2:00pm] bsmedberg: lmandel: not from me, have a conflicting interview
[2:00pm] KaiRo: lmandel: I have a one-sentence audible
[2:01pm] lmandel: joduinn: Do you want the outages section?
[2:01pm] lmandel: joduinn: I think Hal added the updates.
[2:02pm] Mossop: SF is so lonely
[2:04pm] joduinn: lmandel: yeah, but lost connection to vidyo server.
[2:04pm] joduinn: reconnecting... go head past me if you are already there
[2:04pm] lmandel: joduinn: We skipped the section.
[2:05pm] lmandel: joduinn: I called out the outage this friday
[2:05pm] dveditz: frequently asked: wtf happened to my addons?
[2:06pm] dveditz: (some of them, anyway)
[2:07pm] jaws: 0 nightly users on Holly right now
[2:07pm] jaws: nightly builds aren't running yet 
[2:07pm] jaws: i will be blogging to try to get some more people running Holly
[2:07pm] joduinn: lmandel: i would like to circle back to them before the roundtable section (or maybe right at start of roundtable)?
[2:08pm] lmandel: gavin: Can you please add your notes and links to the blog posts to the wiki.
[2:08pm] dveditz: how does australis affect F4Metro? the UI is totally different
[2:08pm] dveditz: are there screenshots of Australized Firefox 4 Metro?
[2:08pm] jaws: dveditz: shouldn't affect metro since they are separate frontends
[2:08pm] jaws: dveditz: metro firefox has been australis from day one 
[2:09pm] dveditz: "We were coding a lot of the bugs for pre-australis and post-australis, but the testing has been done on pre-australis."
[2:09pm] dveditz: I guess talking about code in files that changed, even if in parts not used by Metro?
[2:09pm] gavin: lmandel: done
[2:09pm] lmandel: gavin: thx
[2:09pm] dveditz: backend files maybe?
[2:09pm] jaws: dveditz: yeah, i invited bbondy to this channel to get clarification
[2:11pm] lmandel: gavin: Do you have links to the blog posts that you mentioned?
[2:13pm] gavin: lmandel: will add those
[2:13pm] lmandel: gavin: thanks again
[2:15pm] KaiRo: lmandel: damn, unmuting myself hung up the tablet
[2:15pm] KaiRo: lmandel: could you read out the second line of my wiki entry?
[2:15pm] lmandel: KaiRo: ok
[2:16pm] dveditz: there's a fair number of popular addons with issues still, will take some time to get those fixed
[2:16pm] • KaiRo just wants to ensure less people are surprised by this new high-profile signature
[2:17pm] RyanVM|sheriffduty: was Try enabled too?
[2:18pm] KaiRo: lmandel: ok, I'm back, can do it myself if it hasn't happened yet
[2:18pm] lmandel: KaiRo: I already read out theline
[2:19pm] KaiRo: lmandel: ok, thanks
[2:19pm] dveditz: yay for me 
[2:19pm] akeybl: Jesse: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/18/evolution/ -> https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-firefox-nightly/ -> http://nightly.mozilla.org/
[2:19pm] johnath: yet another peril of running a california-based business
[2:20pm] akeybl: and all the coverage is linking to nightly
[2:20pm] dveditz: johnath: they probably have to put in a new electric meter for the company running the chargers. If they just put in some free plugs I bet they wouldn't have had to
[2:21pm] dveditz: heaven forbid that they let someone have $3 worth of electricity without charging for it
[2:21pm] johnath: heaven and building management
[2:21pm] dveditz: (so now it'll go through something like ChargePro and cost $5)

Engineering Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2013-11-19 – 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time
  • Dial-in: conference# 98411
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 98411
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 98411
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 98411
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 98411
  • Engineering Vidyo Room / Air Mozilla / MTV Warp Core / TOR Finch / SFO Warfield / PDX Widmer
  • join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel
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19-November-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-11-18

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

  • Peter Bengtsson, for adding critical functionality to Air Mozilla on a very short timeline

Upcoming Events

Monday, 18 November

  • Come join the Shut Up & Code Meetup in San Francisco Mozilla Space. Come shut up and work for 2 hours on that side-project you’ve been putting off with a group of like-minded creators! TONIGHT 11/18 6-8pm.

Wednesday, 20 November

Thursday, 21 November

Unmet User Needs and Opportunities in Two Emerging Markets in SE Asia

12PM PST from the Mozilla Portland Office. Live on AirMozilla and simulcast in 10FWD IN MTV.

Want to understand the primary challenges facing users in Indonesia and Thailand in accessing and using the Internet? Want to hear about and discuss opportunities for Firefox in these countries? Bill Selman, Lead User Researcher from the Strategy and Insights team will present findings from a recent user research project to understand browser usage on desktop and mobile devices in Thailand and Indonesia.
[1].

Friday, 22 November

MDN Doc Sprint Join other MDN contributors in #devmo. Help make content changes that are needed before the new site design goes live in a few weeks.

Queer Youth Hackathon Join other Mozillians and SF area hackers working on apps for non-profits who serve LGBTQ youth (all weekend 22-24)

Saturday, 23 November

MDN Doc Sprint Join other MDN contributors in #devmo. Help make content changes that are needed before the new site design goes live in a few weeks.

Queer Youth Hackathon Join other Mozillians and SF area hackers working on apps for non-profits who serve LGBTQ youth (all weekend 22-24)

Sunday, 24 November

Queer Youth Hackathon Join other Mozillians and SF area hackers working on apps for non-profits who serve LGBTQ youth (all weekend 22-24)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

  • Australis landed in Nightly
    • Posts
    • Australis landed on mozilla-central! Over 850 changesets of goodness soon coming to a browser near you.
    • We will be respinning today’s nightlies shortly, so you can test this with your regular update inside Firefox later today or tomorrow.
    • When filing bugs, please mark them as blocking the ‘australis-merge‘ metabug.
    • If you’re an add-on author, have a look at the work-in-progress compatibility MDN page for an idea of what’s changing. Note that it’s not at all certain that we will ride the 28 train.

Firefox Mobile

  • Front-end
    • Open Search support landed
    • New UI for performing actions on a text selection coming soon
    • Quick Share enhancements are in the works
    • Live locale switching is in the works
  • Internals
    • Lots of work to make Firefox for Android easier to hack on with Java-centric IDEs
    • Refactoring to be able to use ProGuard on the Java source
    • Improvements to the testing framework and addition of a new (JUint) test framework
  • Planning / Exploring
    • Cloud service integration into the Home page
    • PDF.js integration
    • Form-fill improvements
    • Casting video to Roku devices

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

  • Mozilla Webmaker is all about teaching the web. Together.js makes it easy for people to connect with each other to teach and learn online.
  • To try it out, log into Webmaker tools like Thimble and click “collaborate”
  • Webmaker’s Brett Gaylor is here to show a demo. And give an update on how it fits into Webmaker’s larger plan.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: No Audio

  • Key targets
    • Version 1.1 – basically complete.
    • Version 1.1 HD – 1.1 + WVGA for a partner. Target to fix blockers by the end of Nov.
    • Version 1.2 – fixing all blockers for 12/9.
    • Version 1.3 – Completing all 1.3 feature work for 12/9.
    • Version 1.4 – in the planning stages.
  • FirefoxOS roadmap is on the public wiki.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

What does Mozillian mean?

  • Being a Mozillian is a Journey
    • Extend the meaning of ‘Mozillian’ to cover anyone on their journey of believing in our mission, taking action to support it and interacting with other community members—even if they’ve only just started on their path.

Speakers

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Michael Verdi Instigator New Firefox update experience Presenting from home Yes No https://blog.mozilla.org/verdi/344/building-a-new-firefox-update-experience/
Robert Richter Pass the App from Mozfest Pass the App Appmaker Apps Vidyo Yes Working App and Twitter timeline Visit http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/designer to make your own (use Paypal component)

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we’ll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you? Area of question Question
What’s your name? What do you work on? Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s) Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where is the new person based? What will the new person be doing?
Wesley (ComputerWhiz) Potch? MV ? Canada? SuMo Contributor?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Roberto Vitillo Vladan Djeric Toronto London Firefox – Desktop Performance
Lara Fischer-Zernin Harvey Anderson US Remote (NY) US Remote (NY) Program Manager
Jean Gong Chris Lee Mountain View Mountain View Program Manager, Firefox OS
Christopher Lam Jaime Chen Mountain View San Francisco Interaction Designer, Firefox Mobile OS

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-18&oldid=764531“

14-November-2013

Mobile: 2013-11-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2013-12-09

Topics for This Week

  • Heads-up that there is some discussion in bug 924692 about how to implement touch-based text selection on Metro/B2G. Once that’s working we’ll probably want to use it in Fennec also. CC yourself on the bug if you’re interested in following along.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

  • Dominic Kuang fixed bug 930566 – Change sans-serif title to bold (first patch!)
  • Stefan Sobering fixed bug 893774 – Doorhanger API should allow null for buttons (first patch!)
  • fedepaol fixed bug 934345 – Downloading an APK crashes fennec
  • capella fixed bug 840144 – Make about:config better
  • swarooprao fixed bug 936727 – UpgradeReceiver logging

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Kats

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  • More APZC/metro work
  • Still keeping an eye on incoming Fennec graphics/panning/zooming bugs

JChen

  • Past week
    • Background hang monitoring work
      • Landed bug 935089 – Array util methods should support mozilla::Array
      • New patch reviewed for bug 935092 – Make a way to get another thread’s pseudo-stack
      • Patch under review for bug 909974 – Background thread hang monitoring
      • Patches under review for bug 932865 – Background thread hang reporting
    • Learning new Telemetry backend
      • ANR reports are being discarded ATM
    • Interviews
  • Next
    • Getting background hang monitoring landed
    • Keep learning Telemetry backend
    • Going through backlogged bugs

GCP

  • Last week:
    • WebRTC 3.43 Landing.
    • Regression hunting after the landing bug 937119
  • Next week:
    • EBU DevCon preparation / presentation
    • bug 932295 Make sure autofocus is on
    • bug 932692 WebRTC crasher
    • Load monitoring/adaption

Randall Barker

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  • Last Week: Fixed crash related to cross process mutex and shared memory.
  • This Week: Resolve visual glitches in rendering.

Brian N

  • Looking at and testing bug 913985 (JNI generation for ProGuard)
    • All green on try
  • Basic WIP for bug 935190 – Try to show cached pages when Fennec is offline
  • Re-trying bug 874985 (session restore tests)
    • Also all green on try
  • bug 937945 – Don’t store activity Context in GeckoProfile
  • Looking at renaming prefs-per-profile

Sriram

WesJ

  • Bug 768667 – Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
  • Bug 936593 – Allow overriding button’s active color
  • Bug 924693 – payment callbacks do not appear on Android

LucasR

Last week

  • Toolbar code revamp
    • bug 871522 – Factor out EditText bits from BrowserToolbar into a CustomView
    • bug 938205 – Factor out editing UI into a separate View
    • bug 936470 – Correctly track page action state to set title padding accordingly
    • bug 937641 – Move toolbar-related classes to the toolbar package
    • (Bounced) bug 935628 – Remove BrowserToolbarBackground from toolbar
    • Lots of reviews
  • Misc
    • bug 936519 – Move general-purpose views to the widget package
    • bug 936522 – Move preference-related to the preferences package
    • bug 933739 – Issues in URL domain autocompletion

Next week

  • Fx26 bug fixing
  • More toolbar stuff

liuche

  • bug 852608 – OpenSearch landed! (long-tap in urlbar on OpenSearch pages)
  • bug 937769 – Missing onError method in adding search engine (follow-up to OpenSearch)
  • bug 937870 – nsSearchService error prompt ignores confirmation argument
  • bug 932092 – UI Telemetry probe jsm
  • bug 934596 – Support OpenSearch engines in search shortcuts

Margaret

(I’m at TRIBE, so I’m missing the meeting)

  • Done
    • bug 846569 – Tab list should keep scroll position when closing a tab
    • bug 935414 – Crash when lots of words are pasted into the urlbar
    • Landed Adrian’s patch for bug 899187 – Robocop tests for bookmarks page
  • In Progress/Next
    • TRIBE/PTO the rest of this week
    • API for adding custom lists to about:home – bug 862805
    • Dynamic snippets, now as a feature built into the browser – bug 937820
    • More about:home context menu work – dependencies in bug 931021

mcomella

  • Past
    • D:
  • Present
  • Future
    • FHR
      • Minor bugs and regressions
      • Create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
    • Researching the use of a linter (JSHint?) in browser.js
    • bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
    • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

<Read Only>

  • Working on locale selection. bug 936756
  • Filing all the Kindle Fire bugs (whiteboard: kindle)
  • NSS started causing 2.3 crashes on startup. bug 935831
  • VideoPlayer is totally busted; started fixing it. bug 936851
  • Working a little on making multilocale APK generation easier. bug 934196
  • FxA reviews.
  • Still catching up on some reviews for nalexander and margaret. Sorry, folks!

nalexander

<Read Only>

BLassey

  • more tab streaming
    • bug 936549 tab sharing won’t stream
    • looking at creating a raw input stream so we can serve via http
  • landed bug 930062, build geckoview library as an ant project
  • rev’d color picker UI bug 875750
  • looked into a minimal xul/js for GeckoView, saw startup win before I broke it
    • We should look at moving as much js as possible out of the start up path for fennec too
      • related, bug 922342, PermissionPromptHelper.jsm takes ~220ms on startup on a galaxy nexus
    • We shouldn’t need “magic js” to be included in an app, need to move viewport stuff (and anything else that’s required) into the platform

MFinkle

  • First set of GeckoView API improvements landed
    • Will get a simple JavaDoc hosted somewhere
  • Next up for GeckoView
    • Permissions in ChromeDelegate
    • Session in ContentDelegate
    • Reduce amount of browser.js code
  • Simple “Share video to TV” project is underway
    • Roku-based receiver initially
    • Prototype is ready (tested by myself, Brad and Wes so far)
    • Exploring new UX ideas
    • Launching point for more second-screen ideas

Ian Barlow

This week

  • Home
  • TV Casting
    • Working with Zhenshuo on some UX designs for casting videos and tabs to TV
  • Autofill improvements
    • Working with Arun on some research here

Arun

  • PDF.js
    • Wrapping up interaction design (Anthony from UX team has begun visual design work)
    • Chenxia has taken logs of errors currently observed in the desktop version of PDF.js running on Android
  • Form Auto-fill
    • Research phase (expect research findings around end of next week)

WebRT

Feature Focus

Fx26
Fx27
Fx28
Fx29

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99998
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Mobile/Notes/13-Nov-2013&oldid=760810“

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-11-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

  • Note: due to the Saturday 2013-11-16 outage, we’ll be disabling updates for 12 hours. At that same time, Nightly/Aurora downloads will not function. No other user impact is expected.

Current Releases

  • Firefox 25.0 was released without any functional issues, and unthrottled completely last week
  • Unplanned Firefox 25.0.1 (desktop/mobile) will be released alongside ESR17/24 due to a newly required security patch

Beta (26)

  • Firefox 26b4 was released yesterday, including patches for the upcoming 25.0.1
  • There will be only one FF26 Desktop Beta the week of Nov 25-29th (American Thanksgiving)

Aurora (27)

  • Firefox 27 has a proposed release date on 2014-02-03 instead of 2014-01-20 due to the company holiday schedule, contributor/user disengagement, and the fact that Australis will be riding the trains. All future merges would be delayed by two weeks. Wiki page and calendar to be updated upon final announcement.

Firefox Metro

  • Team working on Iteration #19 until Friday November 22.
  • To date, 9 bugs awaiting development in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
  • To date, 15 bugs currently in development in Iteration #19 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
  • Profile Sharing: View Bugs.
    • 8 out of 17 bugs completed.
    • Of the 9 remaining, 6 are currently under development in Iteration #19.
  • APZC: View Bugs.
    • 12 bugs remain as blockers for Aurora 28 uplift.
ID Summary Priority Status
831986 Story – Double-tap Zoom P1 ASSIGNED
886321 Story – APZC metrofx issue tracking P1 ASSIGNED
934032 Story – Add View on Metro feature to Desktop Firefox in Australis P1 ASSIGNED
924900 Story – Remove auto sync setup code P1 ASSIGNED
931798 Story – Auto restore session after a switch to desktop happens P1 ASSIGNED
931801 Story – Make shared pref sync code 2-way P1 ASSIGNED
935178 Story – Support broadcast message for switching between Metro and Desktop P1 ASSIGNED
840855 Defect – Dialogs intermittently fail to accept touch input P2 ASSIGNED
930367 Defect – The “about:addons” text is cut off in the different views using Win 8.1 P2 ASSIGNED
928068 Story – Don’t allow switching to Metro while in private browser mode P2 ASSIGNED
922851 Defect – Moving browser to larger secondary display results in clipping / mis-sizing P2 ASSIGNED
934762 Defect – Metro renders squished and mouse/touch events are offset in dual monitor setup when one is HighDPI P2 ASSIGNED
926036 Defect – Long strings in about panel are cut instead of wrapping P2 ASSIGNED
936897 Defect – Download progress bar not appearing after first tab is closed (this._notificationBox.appendNotification is not a function) P2 ASSIGNED
932520 Defect – HTML5 drag and drop does not work in metroFx P2 ASSIGNED
801187 Change – Theme tab-modal prompts to look good in Metro P1 RESOLVED
895520 Change – Firefox Autocomplete theme changes based on latest comps P1 RESOLVED
855434 Story – Non HTML5 specific form elements should work P1 RESOLVED
910223 Story – Firefox Start Transition(s) P1 RESOLVED
936562 Change – When opening a new background tab, new tab should be visible and just to the right of parent/sibling tabs P2 RESOLVED
932664 Story – Link clicks and file activations should open in the currently opened browser no matter which environment P2 RESOLVED
927239 Defect – Context menu items keep highlight after being selected P2 RESOLVED
930771 Defect – Hover scrollbars leave white band after fading out P2 RESOLVED

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Interesting times for flash in the mobile world: bug 935676 – Flash doesn’t work on 4.4 KitKat

Beta (26)

Features

  • Looking good: just under 3 crashes per 100 adu
  • Sounds like Beta 4 is under test and will be signed off on here, in a bit
  • Regression we need to take care of bug 935604 – Regression: Graphical corruption shown on screen during page load
  • The kit kat krasher should have made it into beta 2 bug 934514 – Fennec crashes on KitKat

Aurora (27)

Features

Nightly (28)

Feedback Summary

Desktop

  • Feedback around Firefox “pausing” unless the mouse is moved. So things like Netflix stops while you’re watching. Started spiking ~ 11/9. I think this is getting fixed in Fx25.0.1

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Mobile

  • Motorola launched a entry-level device, the Moto G, which features a 4.5 inch, 720 p display, with 1 GB of Ram and a 1.2 Qualcomm CPU. The phone runs on Jelly Bean and will be upgradable to KitKat at the beginning of 2014. With a price of $179, it is available in Brazil and a few parts of Europe, and it will launch in more countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia in the next few weeks.
  • At the Samsung Developer Conference, first of its kind, there was one Tizen session called “The Tizen Web Platform”, presented in collaboration with Intel. You can find the slide deck here. A big focus of the conference was the Samsung Smart TV platform and multi – screen experiences, as well as and the secure Android layer called Knox.
  • Ericsson released new stats about the mobile industry. Total mobile subscriptions are expected to triple and reach 9.3 billion by 2019, with 60% of them for smartphones. In 2019, almost everybody in the developed world will own a smartphone, but only half of the users in Africa and the Middle East will do the same. Current mobile subscriptions are 6.6 billion, but mobile subscribers are 4.5 billion, with many people having more SIM cards. In terms of content, video will represent 50% of mobile data traffic by 2019. More numbers in the Ericsson Mobility Report.
  • CyanogenMod published an installer on the Google Play Store which, with the help of desktop software, unlocks the boot loader, roots the device and flashes the company’s launcher. The app is available to a list of Samsung, Nexus and HTC devices.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • Australis onboarding work week this week!

Actions this week

  • Laura to get us more information the plans and test plans for the Australis first run

Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Firefox/Planning/2013-11-13&oldid=760909“

13-November-2013

Firefox Status: 2013-11-12

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin’s Status Board)

paolo

(paolo’s Status Board)

mak

(marco’s Status Board)

enn

(Neil’s Status Board)

felipe

(felipe’s Status Board)

mano

(Mano’s Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim’s Status Board)

adw

(Drew’s Status Board)

markh

(Mark’s Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven’s Status Board)

dolske

(dolske’s Status Board)

mconley

(Mike’s Status Board)

mikedeboer

(Mike’s Status Board)

gijs

(gijs’ Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair’s Status Board)

MattN

(MattN’s Status Board)

jaws

(jaws’s Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy’s Status Board)

Details

  • Tuesdays – 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • Handy local meeting time link
  • Dial-in: conference# 91337
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 91337
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 91337
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 91337
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 91337
  • irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
  • “Firefox” Vidyo Room
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Firefox/Meeting/12-Nov-2013&oldid=756159“

SeaMonkey: 2013-11-12

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? -> mcsmurf
  • Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank:
    • –

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn’t been recorded in a bug)
We should assign people to the open items.

NEW

  • —

OPEN

  • —

CLOSED

  • —

Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

  • We are perma-red and perma-orange on comm-central and comm-aurora due to not having a recent enough version of Python (or if we do, the build scripts aren’t finding them).
    • On trunk Linux and OSX trunk builds are perma-red. Windows en-US builds are being successfully compiled but tests are not working due to a dependency on python 2.7.3.
    • bug 908090 ImportError: No module named json, on SeaMonkey Linux/Windows (all) test runs, due to (still) using Python 2.5. We do have python 2.7 installed but our build system is picking up python 2.5 instead.
    • pymake is failing with “invalid syntax” again because of an outdated Python.
    • Priority on fixing this and l10n repacks after 2.23b1 release.(ETA 13th November 2013)
  • No langpacks since 29th August on trunk. Needs investigating.
    • Windows and Mac trunk langpacks directories have been removed on the FTP server, maybe for lack of recent XPIs (later than 2.20a1). Latest Linux langpacks are dated 29 August. Callek told Tonymec on IRC he has a hunch about why but more pressing things to do first.
    • In Bug 902876 Comment 12 Mcsmurf is waiting for feedback from the build team on how to proceed.
    • Trunk, Aurora and Beta TBPLs are far more orange (or even red) than green; at the top of Aurora and Beta TBPLs there is a link to mozilla.org::ServerOps:DCOps bug 870207 which is RESOLVED WONTFIX since June. SeaMonkey::RelEng bug 884454 has been opened as a followup.
  • Buildmaster is up and running.
    • Callek is hand-approving requests for CLOSED TREE landings until he gets things stable enough to reopen the tree.
  • bug 740633 set up seamonkey HPs in scl3. Hardware installed and iLO configured. CentOS 6.3 installed.
  • comm-* will be building out of mozilla-* eventually (bug 648979 etc.). Jcrammer is working on this.

Fixed Stuff Since Last Meeting

  • bug 930981 breaks building of SeaMonkey/Chatzilla on trunk.

Release Train

  • SeaMonkey 2.22 final was released on October 30, 2013.
  • SeaMonkey 2.23 beta 1 is expected to be released on November 13, 2013.

Extensions and Plugins Compatibility Tracking

  • Future hosting/support of add-ons for non-Firefox applications on AMO apparently is in question:
  • See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
  • Addon Compatibility Listings
  • bug 888478 DOM Inspector could not be installed.
    • The Windows version of SeaMonkey 2.21 is affected but not Linux. The install.rdf is missing in affected builds. The last SeaMonkey 2.23 nightly build (before uplift to 2.24) does not seem to be affected possibly because of the other build changes during that cycle (bug 914560).
  • There is now a Lightning versions for SM 2.22 (Lightning 2.7b1) available on AMO.
    • Might need to point out in release notes that users needs to install the Lightning beta versions for the SeaMonkey releases (as Lightning follows Thunderbird 17.0.x release schedule)
    • Problem: Linking to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/lightning/versions/ will provide users with versions that do not put them on the addons beta update channel; also linking to a specific version would need updating with every release
    • Linking to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/lightning/#beta-channel does not jump to the correct page position as addons.mozilla.org loads the user comments for the addon after pageload. So it first moves to the correct position (page anchor) and after that it loads the user comments
  • Our build team needs to automate DOMI branch selection rather than having to tweak the client.py every 6 weeks. bug 763506
  • Some discussion on the new marketplace addons page happened; it’s not clear yet where SeaMonkey and Thunderbird addons will be hosted in the future (probably not on the new marketplace page)
  • Tb/Sm QuickFolders development version 3.12beta2 released 2013-09-18 includes among other things “numerous SeaMonkey bugfixes” which aren’t yet in the “stable” version 3.12 — or in the beta1 for that matter. Since then a beta3 has already been issued, and on September 25 a “3.12.1 maintenance release with important bugfixes” whose release notes don’t explicitly mention SeaMonkey (but the same “SeaMonkey bugfixes” are probably included).
  • Beta version 3.7pre20131013 of Nightly Tester Tools (supporting display of both mozilla-central and comm-central changesets) has been released just before the meeting. A release 3.7 seems imminent. Stay tuned to this channel, more news will appear as we get them.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

  • [From a previous meeting:] There is a problem with the metrics server, so no current data is available
  • See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.22

open tracking (0)
tracking requests (3)
targeted (0)
fixed (15)

2.Next

  • Current issues:
    • [MailNews] most frequently reported issue: bug 913493 MAPI not working on Windows.
  • Current breakages:
    • [mozilla-central] bug 856270 Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2.
      • This broke comm-central in various ways:
      • Core bug 887010 InlineSpellChecker.addDictionaryListToMenu fails if called straight after InlineSpellChecker.enabled is set to true (and no async work around).
  • Mozilla-central bugs that affect us:
    • Note: Please file bugs if you notice any landing on mozilla-central that might break us. Please don’t depend on Ratty noticing such landings.
    • A lot of these bugs are due to mozilla-central switching from synchronous APIs to Asynchronous APIs.
    • bug 831208 (asyncContentPrefsUse) Refactor asyncContentPrefs consumers to use the async API. Tracked in:
      • bug 909093 Update SeaMonkey to use nsIContentPrefService2. Mcsmurf and Neil@parkway are currently working on this.
    • bug 566746 (asyncFormHistory) Form history should use asynchronous storage API. Tracked in:
      • bug 912031 Use Asynchronous FormHistory.jsm in place of nsIFormHistory2 in Suite.
    • bug 769764 move proxy resolution to separate thread and remove sync api. Tracked in:
      • MailNews bug 791645 Rewrite calls to synchronous nsIProtocolProxyService::DeprecatedBlockingResolve with Async code before DeprecatedBlockingResolve disappears as well.
    • bug 793634 Force builds to be compatible with gtk 2.18/glib 2.22. Tracked in:
    • bug 795144 default –disable-gnomeui icon theme support
      • porting bug needed for the two configure.in changesets? Changes could be folded into bug 794772 above. *** IanN and Ewong are looking into this..
    • bug 627699 Port GTK2 to GTK3. Tracked in:
      • bug 882036 Port GTK2 to GTK3 – SeaMonkey Part.
      • A Red Hat person seems to be working on the GTK3 integration.
    • bug 846635 Use asynchronous getCharsetForURI in getShortcutOrURI. bug 834543 Add asynchronous version of setCharsetForURI and getCharsetForURI. Tracked in:
      • bug 896947 Use asynchronous version of setCharsetForURI and getCharsetForURI in getShortcutOrURI and other places.
    • bug 825588 Asynchronous JavaScript API for downloads and bug 851471 Decommission nsIDownloadManager. Tracked in:
      • bug 888915 Move SeaMonkey to the new JavaScript API for downloads when nsIDownloadManager is decommissioned.

Feature List, Planning

Private Browsing is now working and uplifted to SeaMonkey 2.19. Currently we are treating this feature as Experimental because although most things are working some edge cases have probably been missed. Hopefully any remaining bugs will be found before we formally announce.

  • Testing would be appreciated! Please file bugs as blocking the meta bug 460895.
  • In Progress: The about:privatebrowsing page needs UI polish (bug 842439).

Bug statistics for the last two (full) weeks: 45 new, 7 fixed, 23 triaged.

  • Medium triaging effort.

Open reviews/flags:
23 review
7 super-review
2 ui-review
6 feedback

Roundtable – Personal Status Updates

Status Updates from developers – what are you working on, what’s the progress, any other comments? (feel free to add yourself to the list if your name is missing and you have interesting status).

ewong

  • Fixed:
    • bug 918853 – Existing Thunderbird profile is no longer offered for import in a first-run situation
  • Checkin-needed:
  • Review:
    • bug 507676 – Port |Bug 435804 – Remaining rdf cleanup for FilterListDialog| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 840427 – Migrate SeaMonkey builders to using mock
    • bug 853720 – After bug 827446, SeaMonkey doesn’t know mozcrash.
    • bug 864291 – Remove “Personas” from UI and Help
  • Working On:
    • bug 110904 – attach signature fails silently on bad paths
    • bug 507676 – Port |Bug 435804 – Remaining rdf cleanup for FilterListDialog| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 837649 – [Tracking Bug] Stop OSX 10.5 support for SeaMonkey project
    • bug 837650 – Stop support for OSX 10.5 in suite/ tree
    • bug 863747 – Add option to disable Location bar history
    • bug 900422 – Debug Preferences should handle nglayout.debug.paint_flashing_chrome

IanN

  • Some testing, reviewing and commenting.
  • Fixed:
  • Pending check in:
  • Checked in pending review:
  • Waiting for feedback/review:
  • Fixing review comments before checkin:
    • bug 931111 [en-GB] Add Yahoo! and Bing to Fennec search engines
    • bug 757230 When using add button for permissions in Data Manager set a displayHost
    • bug 798147 Switch to correct pref pane if pref window already open
    • bug 778534 Use image instead of html:img in instant messaging
  • Working on:
    • Various SM Council documents.
    • bug 606683 Allow customization of toolbar in Composer and MailNews Composition
    • bug 639690 [META] Re-arrange code between editor and editorOverlay
    • bug 773979 [META] Switch to new drag and drop api in SeaMonkey
    • bug 657234 Move pasteQuote and pasteNoFormatting into contentAreaContextOverlay
    • File/Folder selection in windows.
  • To Do:
    • bug 639395 Get cmd_fontSize to reflect current state of selected content / content at caret.
    • Prefs-in-a-tab.
    • Create FAQ for Friends of the Fish Tank.
    • Help get composer standalone builds working with –enable-tests.

mcsmurf

  • Filed bug 937558 – Need new Venkman and Chatzilla branches
  • Fixed bug 924025 Unable to log in at chase.com
  • Working on bug 909093 – Update SeaMonkey to use nsIContentPrefService2
  • Working on bug 932354 – mozilla-central patches applied twice on Thunderbird Windows try server, try build fails

Neil

Possibly needs comm-beta approval:

  • bug 920677 Click-to-play plugins fail to show placeholder after resizing.

Fixed on comm-central, needs to land on comm-aurora:

  • bug 934013 Modern Theme doesn’t get packaged anymore.

Fixed on comm-central:

Landed on comm-central, comm-aurora and comm-beta:

  • bug 913493 Actually link mapi support into xul.dll.

Waiting for tree to be less red:

  • bug 932969 Find bar string is “undefined” upon first invocation.

Still waiting for review:

  • bug 909093 Update SeaMonkey to use nsIContentPrefService2.
  • bug 514173 Make string literal buffers shareable.

Abandoned:

  • bug 920947 Need to remove plugin doorhanger when last CTP plugin is removed from document.
Apparently this breaks Google Earth even more than it used to. Also I didn’t get around to landing it and requesting aurora and beta approval so it missed the release.
Instead you can view the web console remotely once you enable the built-in debugger. Now with full review!

Ratty

  • Managed to get my build environment up and running. Going through my request queue and what not.

Other stuff:

  • Bug triage and Bug discussions.
  • Usual end user support and PR in newsgroups and Mozillazine.

rsx11m

Waiting for comm-beta approval:

  • bug 931484 Apply transparency rule to signatures only once even if they are nested.

Waiting for reviews:

  • bug 354940 Make background color in URL bar for https: more obvious.
  • bug 842439 Improve style and rearrange content of the about:privatebrowsing page.

Filed:

  • bug 936898 Add global alert icons in missing sizes to the modern theme.

Other:

  • Bug triage, testing, and commenting for SeaMonkey and MailNews Core.
  • End-user information and discussion on MozillaZine.

tonymec

ASSIGNED (waiting for review)

  • bug 112578 (enh) search mails window : search subfolders should remember last state

ASSIGNED (checkin-needed)

  • bug 934191 (min) The title of the “Quit SeaMonkey” dialog is misleading when closing just the Browser

SeaMonkey Meeting Details

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2013-11-12&oldid=759770“

Mozilla Platform: 2013-11-12

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

Next Merge: December 9, 2013 Next Release: December 10, 2013
Trains
Central: 28 Aurora: 27 Beta: 26 Release: 25
  • 26.0b4 Desktop/Mobile shipping today/tomorrow
  • Probably going to skip Desktop-only beta 9 on US thanksgiving, will have b8 and b10 unless there’s unexpected issues
  • Pushing back releases by 2 weeks over the December/January holiday so FF27.0b2 will be live from Dec 20 – Jan 2 and then we’ll pick up from there
    • Full dates & proposal coming to dev-planning, firefox-dev & release drivers mailing lists soon
34 bugs (39 bugs last week) 42 bugs (76 bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 27 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) Unresolved Beta 26 Trackers (non-security)

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

  • Trees Closed Nov 16 0900PT – 1700PT. Also impacts repositories, mdn, etc.
  • Trees Closed Nov 22 or 23 — MTV power work will take tegras offline, closing trees. Landlord has not set final time yet.

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

Team Stand-ups

(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)

Accessibility (dbolter)

<Read Only>

Add-on SDK (dtownsend)

No update

App Tools (dtownsend)

No update

Developer Tools (robcee)

Q4 goals posted here: 2013Q4 Goals.

Landings:

  • Shader Editor!
    • Hacker News Post [[1]]
    • Blog Post [[2]]
    • Preffed off by default
  • Fast pretty printing bug 930141
  • Inspector works remotely on Metro bug 934744

45 bugs closed this week.

DOM (jst/dougt)

<Read Only>

Firefox Desktop (gavin)

Proposed list of Firefox Desktop goals for Q4 has been posted to the mailing list.

Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

<Read Only>

  • Lots of apzc landings last week. Both scrolling and zoom are seeing good improvements.
  • Various front end fixes

Work continues toward Dec. 9th uplift. We’re breaking down bugs based on what we want to get fixed before the uplift and what we want to work on in Aurora.

Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

<Read Only>

  • Status
    • DSDS and some Message user stores may need until Sprint 6 to finish.
    • Gecko/UX close to finish up on DSDS
    • UX close to finish up on MMS
    • Gecko/Gaia worked on MMS user stories
    • Gaia started working on Dialer user story
  • Identified Risks
    • DSDS is at risk and may introduce regressions
    • Some messages features could be postponed to 1.4

Firefox OS Devices Porting/Bluetooth (ttsai/mchen)

<Read Only>

  • bug 876583 – To support bluedroid backend on Gonk-JB version. (V1.3 feature)
    • The basic infrastructure is landed then starting to port profiles.
  • To provide BT related patches for NFC task.
  • Partner Support: Helix, fugu and Flatfish – Media, Bluetooth, Camera, Memory/Stability issues.

Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)

<Read Only>

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

<Read Only>

  • {bug|709490} – Run WebGL on Web Worker with Off-Main-Thread-Compositing
  • {bug|911046} – WebRTC OmxCodec coding path support
  • Look into rendering pipeline to understand how to convert Content tree into Layer Tree.

Firefox OS Performance (mlee)

Backlog

Bugs

  • 1.2: Fixed 8 blockers; 10 remaining targeted for 2013.11.22.
  • 1.3: Fixed 29 issues.
  • Closed 11 backlog issues.
  • http://mzl.la/1bkB5eH

Success

  • Power Usage/Consumption
    • Hamachi and Keon Battery Harnesses built and distributed to all FxOS Perf team members.
    • Built custom ammeter that supports software battery disconnect needed for automation; currently calibrating.
    • Good progress towards disabling USB charging via linux kernel; required for supporting automation.
    • FxOS Power Harness Signup
      • Harnesses enable measuring on-device power usage
      • Requests for harnesses need to be made by Next Friday, November 22nd
      • Signup via the Battery Harness Signup etherpad.
  • Automation
    • Eideticker tests now running on Jenkins; one step closer to continuous integration.
    • Good progress updating Eideticker to work with higher fps cameras; supports more accurate comparisons with Qualcomm’s results.
    • Metrics analysis of Datazilla Cold-Launch Results

Challenge

  • New FPS Scroll regression 1.2 blocker reported by Qualcomm
    • Tracking via bug 936535
    • FxOS Perf, Email, Graphics and Qualcomm teams working together to troubleshoot and fix this.

Firefox OS Productivity (doliver)

<Read Only>

Short update:

Firefox OS Radio/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

<Read Only>

  • Last week
    • Fix koi+ issues.
    • RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
    • NFC, to fix the NFCD crash problem and to add test cases.
    • EAP-SIM, Partner are going to do more porting for EAP-SIM.
    • Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
    • WPA-EAP, to import PKCS#12 CA by wifimanager, reviewing.
    • WIFI-Direct, to implement the main codes of wifi-direct, reviewing.
    • Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
    • Network metering, to centralize the code for network per-app metering.
  • This week
    • RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
    • NFC, to add test cases.
    • EAP-SIM, to integrate Partner’s EAP-SIM solution.
    • Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
    • WPA-EAP, to import PKCS#12 CA by wifimanager, reviewing.
    • WIFI-Direct, to fix sychronisation problem, reviewing.
    • Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
    • Network metering, to add metering function for FTP.

Firefox OS Systems – Front End (gwagner)

<Read Only>

  • Work Week in SF (Nov 4 – 8): https://etherpad.mozilla.org/systemsfeworkweek
  • Download Manager and better offline experience will be in 1.3
  • Haida improvements for 1.4: Rocketbar, Browser integration into systems app, new sheet management model.

Firefox OS Systems – Platform (timdream)

<Read Only>

  • Cursor management: no update.
  • DSDS: API changed on Gaia landed (except IccManager in review). Next: features/UI in Settings app
  • NFC: System app patch from DT engineers in review, BT handing in discussion. App features in progress, need better instructions
  • Tablet: On-going, schedule retargeted. Need to address some brand swapping branding issue
  • 3rd-party keyboard follow-up: v1.2 bugs has been stabilized. Moving on to v1.3 improvements.
  • EAP-SIM: UX and Gecko devs to sync-up on device capability.
  • Format SD card: UX spec available, need to find out if the partition in use (by music app or USB storage).
  • CDMA: Bug on string replacement filed. Need to address some follow-up bugs.
  • Window management: Had system front-end work week. Some of the window transition patches landed. Planned things on system browser, etc. Last patch to remove WindowManager need feedback.
  • Build script: home screen customization prototype available.
  • Zhuyin IME: landed yesterday. Community will test that along with localization altogether. Need to figure out tests.
  • Settings: Little update. Sub-panel work on halt.

Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-11-12

GFX (milan)

<Read Only>

  • Prioritizing for 2014

Identity (spenrose for jedp)

Working hard on Firefox Accounts for FirefoxOS FTU

Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox-Accounts (Please see the FAQ if you have questions)

JS (naveed)

<Read Only>

  • No Update

Media (mreavy)

<Read Only>

  • W3 conference is this week. Many WebRTC folks are at the conference this week.
  • IETF conference was last week. The MTI video codec consensus call (Should we mandate H.264 or VP8 for WebRTC?) was taken, but no consensus was reached. We may move to “alternate consensus” methods to achieve consensus.
  • An update to the webrtc.org code was landed (branch 3.43) late last week. If there are any regressions, please file a WebRTC bug and copy Maire (mreavy at mozilla.com) on the bug.
  • The media playback team is having their work week next week in New Zealand.

Necko (dougt/jduell)

  • no update

Performance (vladan)

Seceng (mmc)

  • Application Reputation: bug 895476 landed to enable local checks. Remote checks blocked on some Windows programming. (mmc)
  • CSP: bug 855326 enables nonce-source directive. (grobinson)
  • Mixed Content Blocker: bug 906190 persists disable protection across child tabs almost landed (ckerschb)

WebAPI (overholt)

  • No update

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

CritSmash (dbolter)

  • risk is trending up slightly – your attention appreciated.

MemShrink (njn)

Proper memory reporting for child processes has landed. Among other things, about:memory’s “Measure and save” now measures child processes. This only affects Firefox and Fennec; B2G uses a different mechanism that already handled child processes.

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

  • Past week’s OrangeFactor: 4.94 (Previous Week: 4.22).
  • 13 intermittent failures fixed in the last week – List – Thanks!.

Stability (kairo/bsmedberg)

  • Overall numbers are good, although we’re still fighting some cycle collector issues on Nightly.
  • dmajor fixed bug 932100 which makes our DLL blocklist work for appinit DLLs. This will help lots with some kinds of greyware/abandonware crash issues.
  • click-to-activate plugin status summary is in firefox-dev: discoverability via infobar landed into Nightly this morning, bug 932854

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

<Read only beyond this point>

Friends of the Tree

There were great changes by volunteers in Core and Toolkit during the past week. Thanks to all of these contributors for their passion and hard work! Here are some highlights:

Mailing List Threads

(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)

Good Reads

(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)

irc #planning Log From This Meeting

[2:00pm] lmandel: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-11-12
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[2:00pm] lmandel: We'll start in a few minutes as the project meeting is running long.
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[2:03pm] lmandel: Starting in 1 minute
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[2:04pm] KaiRo: lmandel: no voice update from me today
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[2:04pm] satdav: can I as a contributor join this meeting the now
[2:04pm] lmandel: KaiRo: Thanks
[2:04pm] satdav: sf is running a bit late due to the remo meeting
[2:04pm] KaiRo: bsmedberg: do you want to do a voice update on what you added?
[2:04pm] lmandel: satdav: We're broadcasting on Air Mozilla
[2:04pm] satdav: well the all hands
[2:04pm] bsmedberg: KaiRo: sure
[2:04pm] satdav: I am watching it
[2:04pm] KaiRo: lmandel: ok, then bsmedberg will voice a stability update
[2:05pm] lmandel: KaiRo, bsmedberg: Ok
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[2:07pm] curtisk is now known as curtisk|afk.
[2:07pm] bsmedberg: blassey_: tab capture/streaming means screenshare your browser?
[2:07pm] lassey: bsmedberg: yes
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[2:08pm] bsmedberg: lassey: how much harder is it to screen share the entire screen or arbitrary windows?
[2:08pm] • bsmedberg needs that for plugin-replacement purposes on video conferencing
[2:08pm] lassey: it will be a separate code path
[2:08pm] lassey: but we want to do that
[2:08pm] • lassey looks for the butg
[2:08pm] lassey: bug
[2:09pm] satdav: lsblakk, whens todays channel meeting
[2:11pm] lsblakk: satdav: it already happened - things were off today because of moving the project meeting
[2:11pm] grace joined the chat room.
[2:11pm] lsblakk: we tacked it on to the 25.0 post mortem
[2:11pm] lsblakk: (this was announced to dev-planning)
[2:11pm] lassey: bsmedberg: bug 923225
[2:11pm] firebot: Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923225 nor, --, ---, nobody, NEW, [meta] Add screen/app/window sharing support
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[2:13pm] • bsmedberg wonders if anybody actually reads the read-only updates
[2:13pm] RyanVM|sheriffduty: bsmedberg: I do
[2:14pm] lassey: bsmedberg: I don't
[2:14pm] vladan: bsmedberg: I do
[2:14pm] lmandel: Roundtable items?
[2:14pm] lassey: if it isn't important enough for the team to read out, my assumption isn't important enough for me to read
[2:14pm] milan left the chat room. (Input/output error)
[2:15pm] lassey: lmandel: read-only updates
[2:15pm] lassey: (if you're asking what we're talking about)

Engineering Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2013-11-12 – 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time
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  • join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel
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12-November-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-11-11

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Being held this *Tuesday*, November 12th 19:00 UTC

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to dkl and glob for fighting off spambots on Bugzilla all week.

Benjamin Kerensa for running a ‘Designing your project for participation‘ workshop at the Portland space last Friday.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 14 November

  • Project Kick-Off Form Refresher Brown Bag: Launching projects quickly and efficiently. 10:00am PST/18:00 UTC at Brownbags Vidyo Room and live in San Francisco Common Space (will be recorded in AirMozila, hosted by Winnie Aoieong)
  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 18:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 15 November

  • Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Privacy Commissioner for Ontario Canada and recognized privacy expert presents “Privacy by Design – Leading the Way to Preserving Our Freedoms, Minimizing Surveillance”, 1-2pm PST in Mountain View, 10 Fwd (will be live and recorded on Air Mozilla)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Webmaker

Non-verbal — more coming up in Lightning Presentations below

  • Following up on MozFest. We’re following up on some of the great new ideas, apps and prototypes that came out of MozFest
  • This week: “Pass the App,” a work-in-progress prototype designed to help anyone make an app to raise money for their favorite cause
  • Also check out: mars.webmaker.org, a new 3D simulation that lets you remotely pilot the Mars Curiosity rover with the actual software used to plan the mission

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Getting to a Million Mozillians

Here are some tips and suggestions for people who are interested in learning more about bringing new contributors in to your project.

  • Who: You have volunteers involved in your project and you’d like to turn up the dial on participation

Speakers

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Karl Dubost Web Plumber Plumbing to make the Web fluid (Web Compatibility) From the Toronto Outer Moz space no, but you can through my slides as I speak It’s coming (Mobile) Web Compatibility
Amira Dhalla Maker Party Mozilla Festival (Mozfest) NYC office No Please play https://vimeo.com/79084410 https://blog.webmaker.org/mozfest_demo_party or https://blog.webmaker.org/mozfest-2013
Robert Richter Pass the App Toronto

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we’ll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you? Area of question Question
What’s your name? What do you work on? Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. What would you like to know?
David Weir (satdav)? Feedback From Staff. Got a Update about the Disability Issues at Mozilla and I am working with H.R about adding a policy to Mozilla?, Link to the results so far https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.governance/kQsmaMxT95g/discussion

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s) Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where is the new person based? What will the new person be doing?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Danny Liang Thomas Tsai Taipei Taipei Firefox OS – Devices AE
Blake Wu Marco Chen Taipei Taipei Firefox OS – Devices
Roberto Vitillo Vladan Djeric Toronto London Firefox – Desktop Performance
Rachel McGuigan Patrick McClard Mountain View Mountain View Help Desk

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
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7-November-2013

Mobile: 2013-11-06

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2013-12-09

Topics for This Week

Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

We had several posts to the mailing list last week covering some good information about Android, Java and code maintenance. Sriram has a post on setImageBitmap(null) being evil. Richard walks through his investigation of a memory issue he fixed. He also started a discussion about some best practices.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

  • Noppanit fixed bug 774696 – Default icon for about:apps (first patch!)
  • Errietta fixed bug 910768 – Add a link to the marketplace in the “No apps installed for this url” toast
  • WG9s fixed bug 931469 – Tapping an .apk file download link results in 2 downloads starting, one of which never completes
  • Federico finished bug 909932 – A new Notifications.jsm API for add-ons
  • darkowlzz fixed bug 920935 – Reading list items opened using keywords are not opened in Reading List
    • This bug was later marked a WONTFIX and the patch was backed out, but we still like to recognize good effort! 🙂
  • capella fixed bug 906402 – security exception when checking signature of favicon

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Kats

<Read Only>

  • No Fennec work recently
  • Spent a lot of time discussing coordinate systems with Botond, things are starting to make sense. This will help both Metro and eventually Fennec

JChen

  • Past week
    • Patch reviewed for bug 909974 – Background thread hang monitoring
    • Been working on bug 932865 – Background thread hang reporting
      • and associated bugs:
      • bug 935089 – Array util methods should support mozilla::Array
      • bug 935092 – Make last-seen peudo stack available
      • bug 896100 – Implement the C++11 rvalue reference helpers in MFBT
  • Next
    • More hang reporting

GCP

  • Last week:
    • WebRTC 3.43 uplift patches. Ready to land but found some x86 issues.
    • bug 932816 Unable to close the app if webrtc is being used
    • bug 933284 crash in @0x0 | audiotrack_get_max_channel_count
    • bug 932692 Crash [@ libdvm.so@0x50e96 ]
    • bug 933705 Android WebRTC deletes a shared GlobalRef
  • Next week:
    • More of the same

Randall Barker

  • Last week:
    • Chased crashes in IPC
    • Chased crashes when using shared memory
  • This week
    • Figure out safe way to share compositor frame metrics with out crashing.

Brian N

  • bug 933501 – Update SUTAgent to look for main activity rather than first one in manifest
  • bug 933614 – Add support for creating a GeckoView library project using mach
  • bug 911364 – New GeckoView instances aren’t connected to Gecko when Activity is recreated
  • Trying to figure out a good way to handle GeckoView lifecycle
  • Reviews

Sriram

  • bug 932967 – LightweightTheme cleanup
  • bug 934001 – ImageView’s setImageBitmap is evil
  • bug 933459 – Reduce unnecessary drawables created by FaviconView
  • bug 934658 – Investigated and fixed non-rectangular clipping in UrlBar
  • bug 935169 – Minor cleanup on TabMenuStrip
  • Working on example application for DroidCon slides

WesJ

LucasR

This week

  • Tons of patch reviews
  • bug 935543 – Remove unused members of BrowserToolbar
  • bug 935523 – Remove setShadowVisibility() from toolbar
  • bug 935530 – Fix subtle misalignment of stop button
  • bug 935534 – Misc tweaks/cleanups in toolbar-related layout
  • bug 935527 – Make all BrowserToolbar members private
  • bug 935526 – Remove redudant uses of ‘this’ in PageActionLayout
  • bug 935473 – Exiting editing mode while forward button is visible might leave it visible and disabled
  • bug 934900 – [TABLET] Back/Forward and Bookmark buttons are enabled in editing mode if tap on URL bar before loading page
  • (Investigated) bug 883500 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: the bind value at index <n> is null at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.bindString(SQLiteProgram.java)
  • Playing a bit with new KitKat APIs
  • Australis bug filing sprint

Next week

  • More toolbar stuff, new batch of patches coming soon
  • More Fx26 stuff, tracking bugs

liuche

  • bug 852608 – Add OpenSearch support [r+]
  • Follow-ups/future work:
  • bug 932092 – UI Telemetry probes
    • talking to bwinton (Australis)
    • looking at Google Analytics
  • (new laptop setup)
  • bug 884590 – prefsObserver bug [mentoring!]

Margaret

  • Done
    • bug 932694 – about:apps is empty after closing Firefox
    • bug 932830 – Add home banner API to let add-on know when message is shown to user
    • bug 934678 – Write test for Home.banner API
    • bug 925082 – Open PinSiteDialog with current pinned term
    • bug 930589 – Remove “Edit” context menu item from reading list
    • bug 933428 – Remove “Share” and “Add to Home Screen” from about:home context menus
  • In Progress/Next
    • Investigating bug 846569 – Tab list should keep scroll position when closing a tab, currently jumps back to active tab
    • Finishing up Adrian’s patch for bug 899187 – Robocop tests for bookmarks page
    • Working on dynamic snippets in bug 922792
    • More about:home context menu work – dependencies in bug 931021

mcomella

  • Past
    • bug 928598 – (WFM) Some favicons missing in new-new-about-home for tablet
    • bug 870925 – FHR Provider: submissions
    • bug 933445 – Incorrect paths for android-services.mozbuild with fennec-code-copy.sh on Linux
  • Present
    • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • FHR architecture docs
  • Future
    • FHR
      • Minor bugs and regressions
      • Create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
    • Researching the use of a linter (JSHint?) in browser.js
    • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

  • Landing and uplifting thumbnail stuff.
  • Assorted other bugs.
  • Benchmarking for elan!
  • Soon: investigating locale switching.

nalexander

Spent all week working on |mach projectify|. See the small blog post and video at http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2013/11/05/building-fennec-with-eclipse-ide-demo/.

BLassey

  • working on tab streaming for second screeen
  • cleaning up and landing GeckoView patches
  • need to update web compat addon

MFinkle

  • GeckoView
    • Cleaning up patches for phase v0.2 (should land today)
    • Lot’s of external interest around GeckoView
    • Android WebView now implemented with Chromium, but still lacks some WebAPI support
  • Second-screen
    • Unbitrotted and fixed some bugs in the patches
    • Started playing with Brad’s tab streaming code
    • Started planning some details around a “Push video to second screen” project
  • Mostly doing manager stuff though

Ian Barlow

  • Out for the afternoon, wiki update only
  • Working on a deck outlining our plans to make Firefox a “Hub” experience for online life. Includes parts about Home (adding feeds and services) and Quick Share (support for multiple quick share spots)

Arun

WebRT

Feature Focus

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)
Fx27 (Ships 01/21)
Fx28 (Ships 03/04)

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99998
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room
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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-11-06

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

  • 25 is unthrottled fully now

Beta (26)

  • FF26.0b2 released yesterda, going to build on beta 3 tomorrow
  • will be evaluating CTP by default in the next week or two

Firefox Metro

READ ONLY

  • Team concluding Iteration #18 on Monday November 8.
  • 17 out of 30 Aurora 28 blocking bugs resolved this iteration representing 53 points.
  • Profile Sharing Feature – 18 out of 47 points completed – 29 remain for Iterations #19 and #20: View Bugs.
    • Uplift of Profile Sharing to Aurora 28 cannot be determined at this time. First round of QA will begin at the conclusion of Iteration #18.
  • To date, 19 bugs in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
  • To date, 14 bugs remaining in Iteration #18 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.

ID Summary Priority Status
886321 Story – APZC metrofx issue tracking P1 ASSIGNED
801187 Change – Theme tab-modal prompts to look good in Metro P1 ASSIGNED
855434 Story – Non HTML5 specific form elements should work P1 ASSIGNED
910223 Story – Firefox Start Transition(s) P1 ASSIGNED
840855 Defect – Dialogs intermittently fail to accept touch input P2 ASSIGNED
933580 Defect – Not switching to desktop if Adobe Reader set as default application P2 ASSIGNED
926036 Defect – Long strings in about panel are cut instead of wrapping P2 ASSIGNED
932664 Story – Link clicks and file activations should open in the currently opened browser no matter which environment P2 ASSIGNED
918203 Defect – Several seconds delay before adjusting when transitioning into filled view P2 ASSIGNED
922851 Defect – Moving browser to larger secondary display results in clipping / mis-sizing P2 ASSIGNED
934762 Defect – Metro renders squished and mouse/touch events are offset in dual monitor setup when one is HighDPI P2 ASSIGNED
903426 Change – In-content crash reporter prompt P2 ASSIGNED
833192 Story – Hi DPI scaling for full HD screens of 12.5″ or smaller P1 RESOLVED
831910 Story – Use the Auto-Complete Screen P1 RESOLVED
922121 Defect – tap-drag on nav bar input invokes scroll of content P2 RESOLVED
927239 Defect – Context menu items keep highlight after being selected P2 RESOLVED
929256 Defect – Dragging form select scrolls content P2 RESOLVED
849564 Change – Add a view-source option into the app bar menu P2 RESOLVED
928201 Defect – Download app bar displays ‘Run’ for non-executable content P2 RESOLVED
934496 Defect – Progress bar displays when a page starts loading in a background tab P2 RESOLVED
934750 Defect – Regression: Cross-slide gesture on Start page not working P2 RESOLVED
935554 Defect – Navbar displays when a page loads in a background tab P2 RESOLVED
924911 Story – Profile switching main task: Change View on Desktop feature to be switch to Desktop feature P2 RESOLVED
924914 Story – Profile switching second main task: Add View on Metro feature to Desktop Firefox P2 RESOLVED
924995 Story – Use same base app name so that it uses the same profile and more P2 RESOLVED
925457 Defect – Tap that crosses boundary between text field and app bar pushes Firefox Start content up the screen rather than overlaying P2 RESOLVED
924894 Story – Split prefs files up for Metro and Desktop when running in the same profile P2 RESOLVED
931846 Story – Change startup cache location for Metro Firefox P2 RESOLVED
919232 Defect – arrow keys not working in form autofill popup P2 RESOLVED
927238 Defect – Dropdowns appear cut off and are not selectable with keyboard shortcuts and flash on/off P2 RESOLVED
931115 Defect – Cache dominant color data for start tiles P2 RESOLVED

Firefox Mobile

Beta (26)

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)

Aurora (27)

Nightly (28)

Developer Tools

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Lots of Feedback around Shaw Network issues in Canada, Bug 935394, not our problem but a significant issues in the last 24 hours.

Mobile

No updates, Firefox 25 is well received.

UX & User Research

No updates this week.

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

  • Study: Vision Mobile’s report on “How HTML Can Compete with Native” evaluates gaps between W3C recommendations and implementation in browsers. [1]
  • Study: Pew’s Internet & American Life Project examines how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives. [2] It breaks down reasons for non-usage into Relevance, Usability, Price and Lack of access.

Tencent

  • China’s Tencent with over 1B users is about to overtake Facebook. [3]. Tencent’s mobile messaging app WeChat has over 200m users, up three times from 2012 year-ending levels of around 85m. Tencent is also preparing $200m to place on a bid for US-based SnapChat. [4]

Microsoft

  • Microsoft is offering 11 goodies to developers who can demonstrate how they got 11% better page load performance in their organization’s home web page with Internet Explorer 11. [5]

Apple

  • Apple’s new OS X Mavericks is focused on helping OS X users be more efficiently. Positives include multi-monitor support and iCloud Keychain for security, and negatives include broken email capabilities. [6] However, it is free for all Mac users, reflecting commoditized state of operating systems besides Apple’s upcoming strategies with hardware differentiation. [7]

Google

  • Google’s maps is evaluating integrating data about emotions, for example, places you’ve rated or people you hang out with, into an interactive visual presentation reflecting our real life connections and peek into the future and possibly travel there. [8]

Amazon

  • Amazon is trying to get independent book stores to sell Kindles. [9] Retailers will have the option of receiving 10% of every Kindle book purchased on Kindle devices sold by the bookstore for the first two years after a customer buys a device.

Mobile

  • Numbers for Q3 of smartphone sales are out. According to Strategy Analytics, there were a total of 251 million units sold last quarter, up 45% from the same time last year. Android runs on 81% of them, iOS on 13% and Windows Phone on 4%. Microsoft’s share has doubled year – over – year and this is the first quarter when it managed to sell more than 10 million devices. The growth is likely coming from the emerging markets and the lower – end of the Lumia line, which features devices such as the Lumia 510 and 610.
  • Canalys, another research firm, adds country granularity and reports that Windows Phone achieved 2nd place in 19 countries: Finland (39%), Vietnam (16%), Italy (15%), Thailand (11%), Turkey (11%) and Russia (8%). In terms of screen sizes, Canalys also reports that shipments of large devices of 5 inch and above reached their highest level with 22% of shipments (56 million units). 66% of the 56 million had a 5 inch display, 31% had between 5 and 6 inch, and just 3% had 6 inch or larger screens. Canalys expects that the form factor between 4.1 and 5 inch to be most popular in 2014.
  • Android version distribution numbers for November put Jelly Bean at 52%, split between v4.1 at 37%, v4.2 at 12% and v4.3 at 2%. Gingerbread is the second most popular version, with 26% and Ice Cream Sandwich the third with almost 20%.
  • Version 4.4 of Android, KitKat, was released, with focus on optimising the OS for lower – end devices. They include lower memory requirements for the platform as well as the generic and Google apps, as well as an API for 3rd – party developers, where they can find out what are the memory specifications of a device so they can serve optimised code. In the effort to achieve less fragmentation and have one major version across the entire Android ecosystem, Google intends to maintain this release through-out next year. The other major category of changes in this new version of the platform is deeper integration of Google applications: Google Now can also be accessed through a swipe from the home screen and an API for deep linking for Google Search directly from applications has been created. Further, Hangouts have been more closely integrated with the SMS / Messaging apps and Google search can also be accessed from the Dialer.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
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